This painting is now in the AAEA 2009 fall exhibition at the International Museum of the Horse (Kentucky Horse Park). My work has been accepted again this year! The exhibition goes to 8 Nov 09, but will also be on the American Academy of Equine Art's website until next year's exhibition.
I was raised as a nomad (dad was in the Air Force), then married my high school sweetheart (still a nomad, husband became physicist in AF). Settled in North Carolina on a farm (after AF career) with our family of 3 kids, a few horses, many dogs and 2 cats (as well as wildlife that comes from all directions to dine at the birdfood buffet). My husband is now a physics professor, and I am working to build my business as an artist. For more years than I would like to admit (actually decades), I have sold horse,dog,landscape and still life paintings(many were commissions). I began drawing even before I started to take riding lessons(at age 8 ). I am mostly a self taught artist, though I majored in art (U of CO, CO Springs). My style hovers between traditional and contemporary realism. I enjoy detail, but I also admire the looseness of painterly work. Having a blog will be very challenging to me, but I'll try to keep it going.